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Euonymus (About forty species)

About forty species are included here; they inhabit the mountainous parts of India, North China, Japan, Europe, and North America, a few being found in the Malay Islands. To those described on pp. 539-40, Vol. In the following should now be added:

E. japonicus Carrierei (Carriere's). A prostrate form that will make a picturesque rockwork plant. 1883. A vigorous, green-leaved, garden variety of E. radicans.

E. j. Chouveti (Chouvet's). l. thick, fleshy, very narrowly ovate-elliptic, glossy, rounded at tip, with a narrow margin of yellowish-white. A remarkable form, with erect branches. It bears cutting well, and makes an excellent ornamental border plant. 1887.

E. j. columnaris (columnar). l. shortly oval, rounded, sometimes sub-orbicular, thick, glossy, with broad, shallow teeth. A vigorous form, of columnar habit.

E. nanus (dwarf). fl. greenish-white, four-cleft, one to three on a peduncle. July and August. l. lanceolate, entire, nearly opposite, deep green. Branches smooth, somewhat herbaceous. Northern Caucasus, 1830. A neat, trailing under-shrub, suitable for the rockery. SYN. E. pulchellus (of gardens). E. pulchellus (pretty). A garden synonym of E. nanus.